Could Ted Mosby not have been as innocent as her made himself out to be to his kids? Show favourite Barney Stinson actor Neil Patrick Harris certainly seems to think so

By Lauren Franklin

30 Mar 2018, 19:08

Updated: 30 Mar 2018, 19:15

By Lauren Franklin

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HOW I Met Your Mother fans were only given the opportunity to hear Ted Mosby’s side of the story he told his two kids – and his pal Barney Stinson didn’t come off well in it.

However last year, one fan theorised that Ted, played by Josh Radnor, made Neil Patrick Harris’s Barney appear much more of a womaniser than what he really was.

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Neil Patrick Harris (left) agrees with a fan theory that Ted Mosby (right) made Barney Stinson out to be worse than how he really was in How I Met Your MotherCredit: Alamy

Gingersaurus wrote on tumblr: “That moment when you realize that Barney Stinson was probably not as much of a jerk or a womanizer as he was portrayed to be, but that the story was narrated by future Ted, trying to get his children to approve of him dating Robin again, so future Ted had to make the man Robin married look like the bad guy in the story.”

And it appears that the theory isn’t all that farfetched as Neil has now weighed in, revealing he finds it, “very accurate”.

"Given the story structure, and with [Ted] telling the story to his kids, everything was able to be overdrawn."

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Ted eventually married married Robin (centre) but apparently made her ex-husband Barney seem worse so his kids wouldn't think he was a bad guyCredit: Alamy

He even had evidence, citing an episode named The Rough Patch which where Ted exaggerates how Robin and Barney have let their standard slip as their relationship progressed.

He said: "There's the crazy things, like when Barney and Robin started dating, and they get tired of each other; in that episode, Barney had gained 75lb, and Robin had her hair falling out and had gaps between her teeth! So Ted's revisions of the characters are, for sure, proven."